The Hobbit Discussion [May Contain Spoilers]

[HalfSquirrel]

I'm discussing. It's is a discussion thread.

Ok... What don't you like about it?

 

[Vaangel]

Gollum was smexy

 

[HalfSquirrel]

Gollum was smexy

His teeth were weird

 

[SabotageTheFool]

Agreed, awesome bit of connection.

How do people feel about the movie being in 3 parts?

I didn't know this going in to it, so I was bursting for a pee for half of it waiting >_< Then realised "Yeah this isn't gonna end" and everyone predicted the ending

 

[HalfSquirrel]

I think it's really odd that it's in 3 parts... 1 book, shorter than any of the LotR books (I think) split into as many movies as the LotR trilogy.

 

[Stijn]

I think it's really odd that it's in 3 parts... 1 book, shorter than any of the LotR books (I think) split into as many movies as the LotR trilogy.

It's odd indeed, but the first plan was to cut it in two movies.
But if they think it will work it maybe will.

 

[HalfSquirrel]

It's odd indeed, but the first plan was to cut it in two movies.
But if they think it will work it maybe will.

Yeah, That's reasonable I guess based off how the first movie went.
Hopefully they manage to make the second movie better than the first, because improvement is always nice

 

[Zeno]

They're going to have to make a lot of stuff up to fill in two full movies though

 

[HalfSquirrel]

They're going to have to make a lot of stuff up to fill in two full movies though

They've already done quite a bit. *Check my favourite character *

 

[Zeno]

They've already done quite a bit. *Check my favourite character *

He was actually mentioned briefly in the book!

And as to the necromancer, my dad found an interesting quotation frm the book, which I'll attach here:
"Your grandfather," said the wizard slowly and grimly, "gave the map to his son for safety before he went to the mines of Moria. Your father went away to try his luck with the map after your grandfather was killed; and lots of adventures of a most unpleasant sort he had, but he never got near the Mountain. How he got there I don't know, but I found him a prisoner in the dungeons of the Necromancer."
"Whatever were you doing there?" asked Thorin with a shudder, and all the dwarves shivered.
"Never you mind. I was finding things out, as usual; and a nasty dangerous business it was. Even I, Gandalf, only just escaped. I tried to save your father, but it was too late. He was witless and wandering, and had forgotten almost everything except the map and the key." "We have long ago paid the goblins of Moria," said Thorin; "we must give a thought to the Necromancer." "Don't be absurd! He is an enemy quite beyond the powers of all the dwarves put together, if they could all be collected again from the four corners of the world. The one thing your father wished was for his son to read the map and use the key. The dragon and the Mountain are more than big enough tasks for you!"

Which, through the power of Wikipedia translates to:
Dol Guldur (Sindarin: "Hill of Sorcery")[1] was Sauron's stronghold in Mirkwood in the fictional world of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. It is first mentioned (as "the dungeons of the Necromancer") in The Hobbit.[2][3]

Sauron is the Necromancer!

 

[HalfSquirrel]

He was actually mentioned briefly in the book!

And as to the necromancer, my dad found an interesting quotation frm the book, which I'll attach here:
"Your grandfather," said the wizard slowly and grimly, "gave the map to his son for safety before he went to the mines of Moria. Your father went away to try his luck with the map after your grandfather was killed; and lots of adventures of a most unpleasant sort he had, but he never got near the Mountain. How he got there I don't know, but I found him a prisoner in the dungeons of the Necromancer."
"Whatever were you doing there?" asked Thorin with a shudder, and all the dwarves shivered.
"Never you mind. I was finding things out, as usual; and a nasty dangerous business it was. Even I, Gandalf, only just escaped. I tried to save your father, but it was too late. He was witless and wandering, and had forgotten almost everything except the map and the key." "We have long ago paid the goblins of Moria," said Thorin; "we must give a thought to the Necromancer." "Don't be absurd! He is an enemy quite beyond the powers of all the dwarves put together, if they could all be collected again from the four corners of the world. The one thing your father wished was for his son to read the map and use the key. The dragon and the Mountain are more than big enough tasks for you!"

Which, through the power of Wikipedia translates to:
Dol Guldur (Sindarin: "Hill of Sorcery")[1] was Sauron's stronghold in Mirkwood in the fictional world of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. It is first mentioned (as "the dungeons of the Necromancer") in The Hobbit.[2][3]

Sauron is the Necromancer!

Yes, he was also a character (for 1 conversation with Gandalf) in the Fellowship of the Ring. (If you meant mentioned in the Hobbit).
And that is interesting I remember something like it in the movie.